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Show HN: Blogr – for developers who never blog consistently

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I built Blogr because I've shipped a handful of side projects and can never stick to blogging, even though I know it's the best thing to do for SEO long term. I want to spend my time building, not blogging!

Blogr is a GitHub App. You install it on your repo, configure your site once (description, tone, audience, keywords you want to rank for, topics to avoid), pick a schedule, and it commits MDX blog posts to your repo automatically.

The positioning for this app over others like it:

- Posts commit as MDX files in your repo, so you keep them if you cancel.

- It reads your existing posts to match voice, avoid duplicate topics, and add internal linking.

- If you're on something like Vercel, posts auto-deploy as soon as Blogr commits.

- Posts are run through multiple filters to maximize SEO and humanize the writing.

- Set and forget. Nothing to monitor or babysit.

Happy to answer anything about the implementation or the idea.

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Building, marketing, social, PR, blog cadence: the blog always gets bumped. Real pain. My concern though: my blog's voice doesn't fit cleanly into any of your four tone buckets. Closest is "Conversational" but the actual register is more specific (first-person maker, the kind that admits prior wrongness), and readers are partly there for that specific register. How does Blogr handle voice matching beyond surface tone? Reading existing posts is a start but the harder thing is the things you don't say. Curious whether you've found that to be a ceiling.

This is something I'm still working on. The 1st person takes have a higher hallucination rate, and I did not want to promise that for my launch. It's taking more time to refine these takes.

I know that most blogs and built-in public creators are leaning into the vulnerable side and getting a tone that would be vulnerable without it lying and creating a negative impression on readers is too risky for me to add it yet. I don't want it to say, "I crashed my site yesterday," and users think, "Whoa, this is not a viable product."

I'm concerned about bringing more ai generated content to this world.. It's everywhere. And I saw similar projects in the past, like outrank. Did you explore them? Except pricing, what are the advantages of your service comparing to them?

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